Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries)
Message-ID: <2150@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 23:53:06 GMT
References: <4476@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2132@sugar.UUCP> <4530@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Gee, can I start making ad-hominem attacks too?

In article ... richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
> Peter, you're insane. Can you back up this wild assertion ?

> Peter, you're insane. Can you back up this wild assertion ?

> ObJok: How many Peter da Silva's does it take to screw in a light bulb ?

> Two. One to hold the bulb while the NET revolves around him, and the
> other to post every other message to comp.sys.amiga.

I can do that too:

Q: How long does it take Richard Sexton to screw in a lightbulb?

A: He'll get around to it when he's finished making personal attacks on
   Usenet.

> First it was "my drive is out of alignment, Commodore should redesign
> the file system to tolerate that"

My drive is not out of alignment. I don't have any of the symptoms of a drive
that's out of alignment (particularly bad performance from one drive, disks
that can only be read on the same drive that write them, disks that other
people can't read, etc...). I do have a 2 year old child and a moderately
normal family life that precludes my running my computer in a clean room, but
that's the environment a $1000 computer should be designed to deal with.

> Then it was "I don't like parallet ports, NOBODY should use them"

No, it was "by the way, aren't parallel ports for printers a really weird
idea? Gee, wouldn't it be nice if IBM hadn't screwed everyone by standardising
on parallel printers? Then I could have two generally useful ports on my
machine."

Followed by ultimitely futile attempts to defend myself against flames that
(1) I was trying to dictate my preferences to everyone else (absurd in the
face of the fact that the machine has already been shipping for a couple of
years), and (2) that parallel ports are, in fact, more useful than serial
ports. I am unconvinced of point two, but point one is a pure ad-hominem
attack.

Three guesses as to which of these points Richard Sexton decided to push.

> And now it's "We only like UNIX groups here in this little pocket of
> hell we call Texas, everything else should fly into a black hole"

No, it was more along the lines of "due to the fact that certain people over
in news.admin seem to be planning to eviscerate the micro groups, it might
be a good idea to trim some fat ourselves before it gets trimmed for us",
followed by "I think that the binaries groups are fat".

Richard:

	"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

			-- Old folk saying.
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